im doing a reaserch paper on the Limitations Of Civil War Medicine and i need some suggestions on any books, websites or just anything yall know about Civil War medicine. there were no specific books that i was told to read and no sites I was told to visit, i just picked a subject that i know a little bit about and decided that was what im gonna write about. any help that yall can give will be much appreciated.

____________________War Means Fighting And Fighting Means Killing - N. B. Forrest
When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Stonewall Jackson

To look at ACW medical advances & Limitations you also have to take a look at those made in the Crimea a scant decade earlier. Many of the advances of the ACW were heralded & began in the Crimea by British & French doctors.

Wish I could help with your paper, DG, but I know nothing about the subject. You've been given some excellent suggestions, and you might consider patterning your paper around some of them.

Medical conditions were, as we now know, quite primitive. but we have also seen that the Crimean war and the US Civil war represent quite positive turning points in battlefield medicine. (Crimean equals Florence Nightingale. USCW and the Red Cross equals Clara Barton. A good human interest story in that some recognized that what was being done -- officially -- was not enough.)

A good examination into what was to become a major change. The nature of germs and sterility were emerging. A point in time where medicine made some great strides and became what we might call merely primitive -- a time of learning and awakening.

Maybe your hook is in what was learned and who contributed to that learning?

dont really know what got me hoked into CW medicine. i guess its cause i wanna be a surgeon myself and i spend time researching different diseases and disorders. im just fascinated by the different medicines and different surgery's that can be done, and i can tell the different signs and symptoms of diseases

____________________War Means Fighting And Fighting Means Killing - N. B. Forrest
When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Stonewall Jackson

Another hook might be how the use of medicines has changed. Vinegar was used as an anti diarria med, Mercury used to be ingested for a variety of illnesses, Listerine (the mouthwash) used to be an anti lice shampoo etc.

Listerine was at one time a horse linament
Today, it is a pretty effective mosquito repellant...
even the generic veresions will repel mosquitos..just wipe your exposed skin with the stuff and you will not get bit

Johan Steele wrote: Bama is quite right; I had forgotten it's use for horses... never really knew what for though. Also didn't know about it being able to repel the MN state bird. Listerine... good for everything!
Johan your wrong man, mosquito's are the NC state bird.

____________________War Means Fighting And Fighting Means Killing - N. B. Forrest
When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Stonewall Jackson